Bargaining Session #4 and Petition to Reinstate Mask Mandate
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Announcements:
Bargaining Session #4
A flyer with a peach-colored background and an image of an orange megaphone with waves of sound in the upper right. Orange and white text reads “FULL CONTRACT BARGAINING SESSION #4 5/23/22 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM. On Monday, May 23 from 2:00-5:00 PM, GEO’s Bargaining Team will be negotiating with university administration on topics of access and justice, wages and waivers, and health and safety in our contract. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/GEOBargSess4.” On the bottom left is a white circle with the letters GEO inside.
Please join us for our next bargaining session on Monday, lets pack the screen! Your presence there is powerful so please drop by for as long your schedule allows.
Petition to Reinstate Mask Mandate
Recently, the university decided to repeal the in-class mask mandate for upcoming summer classes. Please see the Disability Caucus statement on this below, and sign our petition to the administration to show our support of protecting ALL members of our campus community:
We the Disability Caucus of the GEO are appalled with the University’s decision to repeal the in-class mask mandate for Summer 2022. As of May 11, 2022, the 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate on campus is 4.25%, there have been 369 cases in the past week, and a new subvariant of Omicron, BA 2.12.1, is poised to become dominant in the US in the next week. For many d/Disabled people, a positive COVID-19 diagnosis is still a death sentence. While vaccines cannot prevent transmission, masks have proven to be very effective in doing so. In spite of these worsening conditions, you have repealed the in-class mask mandate once again proving you value profits over the lives of d/Disabled workers. This decision is deadly. We, the d/Disabled graduate workers of the GEO, urge you to reinstate the mask mandate in classrooms and all indoor university spaces. We are not disposable. We will not be sacrificed.
Petition Here: tinyurl.com/geomaskpetition
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In Solidarity,
Graduate Employees’ Organization
809 S. 5th St., Geneva Room
Champaign, IL 61820
Email: geo@uigeo.org